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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

` Beit known that I, JOHN E. EARLE, of New Havien, in the county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut; g have invented'a new Improvement in Corkscrews; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the Aaccompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and

exact descriptionoi` the same, and which said drawin gs constitute part of this specication, and represent, in- Figure 1, a side view closed, and in Figure 2 the same open. i This invention relates to an improvement in the means for withdrawing corks from bottles, the object being to combine with the ordinary corkscrew a means for cutting the wire which secures the cork, and to this end the invention consists in combining a pair of cutters with a common corkscrew, so that the handles by which the cutters are operated may also form a handle for operating the corkscrew.

To enable others to construct and use my improvement, I will proceed to describe the same as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A is one cutter, formed upon a handle, B; C, the other cutter, formed upon a handle, D, pivoted together at a, in the usual manner of common shears or cutters.' Upon the same pivot, and between the two jaws, I hang a. corkscrew, E, so that the handles may be opened therefrom as in jig. 2, at the same time opening the cutters'. I prefer to make the handles as shown in the drawings, so as to close together and-cover the corkscrew,l as seen in fig. 1.

To cut the wires, the instrument spread the handles as seen in tig. 2, and insert and operate the corkscrew in the usual manner.

A. convenient corkscrew na'y be made by leaving off the cutters, so as to open to a bearing, as denoted in red.

Having thus/fully described my invention, Patent, iS`-' A The combination of the two handles B and D with. the corkscrew E,pivoted together so as to operate in the manner shown and described, and with or without the cutters A and C.

what I-claiin as new and nsefuL-and desire to secure by Letters JOHN E.' .EARLE Witnesses:

A. J. Tissus, MICHAEL RYAN.

is used in like manner as a commonpair of shears. To use the cockscrew,

constructing the handle as seen in fig. 3, 

